So this contest just went badly for me. With the ongoing COVID-19 situation I decided to enter from home, knowing that it would be a struggle with my very modest station. In both 2018 and 2019 I operated from big stations in Maryland and it was a great contest, but this time even though the […]
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ARRL November Sweepstakes CW – AD5XI
After two years living in Maryland this was actually my first Sweepstakes, and could well be my only chance! I was pleased to be able to join a PVRC online session in the week leading up to the contest, otherwise I’d have been stumped as to how to work N1MM logger and manage the exchange. […]
FOC BW QSO Party September 2020 – AD5XI
I only managed to spend a few hours QRV this time around. My IC-7610 and indoor dipoles with 100W netted me 162 QSOs in total. Pretty even spread across 80/40/20M. I heard relatively few EU stations and worked even fewer of them. However, I had some excellent short catch-up QSOs with friends across NA and […]
CW Open 2020 – AD5XI
I have never before taken part in the CW Ops CW Open contests. It’s an interesting format, 3x 4-hour sessions. They are clearly designed around the East Coast of the USA for times that suit my operating and sleeping patterns. The first session on Friday 4th September was 2000-2359 EDT, which meant only staying up […]
NAQP CW August 2020 – AD5XI
Although I did have an opportunity to operate from a M/2 station, with the ongoing worry around COVID-19 I decided that it was best to operate from home. Team contests are a lot of fun, but as I’ve done this contest from home before I also had a personal best to set. As always when […]
IARU HF Championship 2020 – AD5XI
After spending a little while in the UK I now find myself back in W3-land and what better time to spend the first weekend of mandatory quarantine but to enter a contest. I’ve only really entered the IARU HF Championship contest when I’ve been operating as part of the UK team GR2HQ, but this year […]
CQWPX CW 2020 – G9V
As I am still in the UK I decided to put some time in using the Vulture Squadron CG club call G9V. The idea being that G9 is an unusual prefix for England and I may be popular on the bands. Conditions didn’t seem all that great on Saturday, but I worked a few NA […]
The King of Spain CW Contest 2020 – M0PCB
I’ve never done this contest before, but I managed to find a couple of hours on the Saturday evening to play. Only a few QSOs on 20m but I had a decent run on 40m for a while before bed. Just running 100W and an Aerial-51 404-UL OCFD antenna at around 25 feet Inverted-Vee. Keying […]
ARI DX Contest 2020 – M0PCB
Like a few contests recently I haven’t entered this one before, but as I had some time on the radio while this contest was on I decided to work a few stations. While temporarily in the UK again I’m using my back-up station, which is a K3 with an Aerial-51 404-UL Off-centre fed Dipole antenna […]
Shenandoah National Park April 2019 – AD5XI
Over the weekend of 13/14 April 2019 I was in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia with Tony M5OTA activating some SOTA summits. This was a new one for me. I once tried to activate a summit near my UK home but failed at the first hurdle when I was unable to connect the antenna to the […]